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Ticktree
Desmodium gangeticum
14.14, 121.23
Field Notes
Description:
Desmodium gangeticum Linn. (Fabaceae), Mangkit (local name) / Shalparni or Sarivan (Hindi) is one of the most important Ayurvedic herbs. It is an an erect or ascending, half-woody branched plant, usually about 1 meter high. Flowers are numerous, white, purple or lilac, 4 mm long borne on lateral and terminal, slender racemes, up to 30 cm long.
Habitat:
Seen in Mount Makiling Forest Reserve in Los Baños, Laguna.
Distribution: In thickets and open secondary forests and waste places throughout the Philippines. Also reported in India, Himalayas, Ceylon, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, China, and tropical Africa.
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedJanuary 13, 2016
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